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its sphere of activity will be discussed at the next Sparte meeting
to be held on 16 October.
Please communicate the contents of this
letter confidentially to all offices concerned.
Received 7
October |
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| [Signed] DR. TER MEER |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-2638
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 140
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LETTER OF VERMITTLUNGSSTELLE W CONCERNING
ITS PURPOSE AND
TASKS* |
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| CONFIDENTIAL |
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I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Liaison Office W
[Vermittlungsstelle W] |
| Berlin 31 December 1935 |
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Development of the work of the Liaison Office W
[Vermittlungsstelle W] |
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With the creation of the Wehrmacht, the entire German industry was
given the task of bringing its plants and its organizations in line with the
building up of the defenses of the country, which meant to reorganize its
existing plants and offices from the point of view of military economy.
The newly founded Vermittlungsstelle W has as its task the unifying and
coordinating of these matters within the IG organization. The aim of this work
is the building up of a tight organization for military economy in the IG which
could adapt itself without difficulty to the existing over-all organization of
IG and of the individual plants.
In case of war IG will be treated by
the authorities concerned with military economy questions as one big plant
which, as far as it is possible to do so from the technical point of view, will
settle its problems concerning military economy independently without any
organizational influence from outside.
1. The work in this direction
was in principle agreed upon with the Ministry of War
[Reichskriegsministerium], Military Economics Office [Wehrwirtschaftsamt], and
from this office with the Ministry of Economics.
In close collaboration
with the Ministry of War, it was pro- […vided] |
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* In an affidavit attached
to this exhibit Dr. Struss, chief of the Office of Farben's Technical
Committee, stated that this document came “from the files of I. G.
Farbenindustrie AG. and was drawn up by Dr. Ritter in collaboration with
Professor Krauch. This document could only have been signed by Professor
Krauch, as Dr. Ritter had no authority to sign.”
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